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README for the Replication Archive of "Distributive Politics and Crime"
Masataka Harada and Daniel M. Smith
Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy

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This document provides replication data and code to reproduce the tables and figures presented in the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy article, "Distributive Politics and Crime." Please cite this article if any part of the replication archive is used.

This README document includes:

1. Contents of replication archive
2. Original data source information 
3. Software dependencies

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1. CONTENTS OF REPLICATION ARCHIVE

In addition to this README.txt file, the replication archive contains: 

a. MASTER.do (Stata do-file to run the code)
b. MASTER_TABLE1.dta (Data to replicate Table 1)
c. MASTER.dta (Data to replicate other results)
d. CODEBOOK.csv (Codebook of definitions for variables in MASTER.dta and original data sources)

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2. ORIGINAL DATA SOURCE INFORMATION

The MASTER.dta file listed above contains variables from the following sources:

a. Crime and unemployment variables come from the Census and Statistics of Japan:

https://www.e-stat.go.jp/regional-statistics/ssdsview

b. Malapportionment index and related variables come from replication data for Horiuchi and Saito (2003):

Horiuchi, Yusaku and Jun Saito. 2003. “Reapportionment and Redistribution: Consequences of Electoral Reform in Japan.” American Journal of Political Science 47(4):669–682.
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/29075

c. Variables related to parties and electoral competition (e.g., "battleground" districts) come from The Reed-Smith Japanese House of Representatives Elections Dataset (JHRED): 

Reed, Steven R. and Daniel M. Smith. 2018. "The Reed-Smith Japanese House of Representatives Elections Dataset." https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QFEPXD, Harvard Dataverse, V1.
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/QFEPXD

Note: The JHRED dataset does not contain the names of municipalities, so we first merged this dataset with the JED-M dataset (Mizusaki and Mori, 2014), which contains these names. Then, we merged JHRED dataset with the Census and Horiuchi and Saito Datasets. The JED-M variables are not otherwise used in the analysis.

JED-M (水崎・森) 衆議院議員総選挙デ ー タ : 第 28-47回 (2014年) / 制作・著作水崎節文, 森裕城. JED-M (Mizusaki, Mori) shūgiin giin sōsenkyo dēta : dai 28-47-kai (2014-nen) / seisaku chosaku Mizusaki Tokifumi, Mori Hiroki.

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3. SOFTWARE DEPENDENCIES

All analyses were conducted using Stata 17, and confirmed to replicate on Mac OS Catalina (version 10.15.7) and Windows 10.

